Roofing Services in Lincoln Park, Chicago

Lincoln Park is dense and vertical: greystone and brick two-flats and three-flats, frame Victorian cottages that have been raised and rebuilt, rowhouses, and an increasing volume of new construction squeezed onto standard 25-foot lots. Most of the multi-unit stock carries low-slope roofs behind masonry parapets rather than pitched roofs. Roof decks are extremely common here, which means membrane roofs with pavers, framing penetrations and railing attachments - every one of those is a potential leak path that a conventional roof does not have.

The bulk of what we do in Lincoln Park is low-slope membrane repair and replacement, parapet and coping work, and roof deck-related leak diagnosis. Deck-over-membrane construction is the single most common source of calls: water gets past a poorly detailed penetration or a failed termination at the deck framing and shows up on the top floor. Access and staging on narrow lots with alley-only approach is a planning exercise on nearly every job.